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Separated at Birth?

One of our favorite players on the Hurricanes Team is named Mike Commodore. He has this huge red puffy mane. He cuts his hair at the beginning of every season, and then just lets it grow the entire season. We hope to bring Cole to a playoff game (assuming our 'Canes PICK IT UP and make it past the first round) because we saw a striking similarity in hair styles, and I was at the mall today when someone else also commented on looking like 'that hockey guy'. :)

2 Years Old

Cole turned two on April 20th, and we had a few little friends over to celebrate on his actual birthday. It was low-key but lots of fun. One funny thing, is that we had 5 2-year-olds, and 5 infants! Many of my friends are ahead of us on child #2 (one of my friends conveniently had #2 and #3 in the form of identical twin girls). So I took a picture of all the baby carries on the floor, some with the babies still in them. :)

He loved it when everyone sang happy birthday to him, and he blew out his little candle on the first try. After it was done, he looked at me and said "more, more happy birthday?" I think he wanted everyone to sing again.

We had his family party on saturday, with pictures of that to come soon.

Bas-keet-ball-poop

I'm not being vulgar, this is how Cole says Basketball hoop. I got him one this winter at a consignment sale and when it warmed up we put it outside. Well, he loves it. Every day the same thing, he wants to go outside and shoot the ball. He yells "yes!" (somewhat in-your-face...perhaps we shouldn't have taught him that) when he scores, and "close!" when he misses. He particularly enjoys asking you to miss on purpose ("Mama! close?") and then going in to score himself right after you.
but don't worry, its' not taking the place of Hockey. We have hockey net and sticks in the closet for him, but he was "cross checking" a little too much around the house, so we have confiscated his stick for a few months.

Surf's Up

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine tried to plan a playdate but it turns out everyone (and I'm not kidding) was going to be at the beach. So after a few emails back and forth, we decided that we'd go too! Lynn and her daughter Claire and Cole and I found the cutest little Inn across the street from the beach. We just stayed one night, and left mid morning as Cole had come down with a fever and cold. But we still enjoyed the sound and smells of the beach and the sun. It was a fun time away with fun friends! Here is a picture of Cole enjoying some breakfast on our balcony, and one of the two of us on the beach....he wasn't particularly thrilled about the waves this time. :)

Zoo Time

We went with Kevin's parents (Nana and Grandaddy to Cole) to the zoo about a month ago. The weather had just started turning warm. We spent the night in High Point at the Spillman's house and it was just about a 35 minute drive to the zoo so we were there when it opened. We beat the crowds and the heat and saw quite a few animals in action. Cole I think enjoyed it, although I'm not sure if he could figure out these super size versions of what he'd seen only in pictures. Here are just a few of the pictures we took.